Intellectual Property India Publishes Patent Application for 'Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Based Variable Rate Applicator (UAV-VRA)' Filed by Punjab Agricultural University

MUMBAI, India, April 10 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202411072536 A) filed by Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, Punjab, on Sept. 25, 2024, for 'unmanned aerial vehicle based variable rate applicator (uav-vra).'

Inventor(s) include Dr. Aseem Verma; Prabhsimran Kaur Dhillon; Dr. Manjeet Singh; Dr. Raghuvirsinh Parmar; and Er. Tarandeep Singh.

The application for the patent was published on April 10, under issue no. 15/2026.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present invention provides for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle based Variable Rate Applicator (hereinafter referred to as UAV-VRA) for fertilizer application designed to optimize fertilizer distribution across fields. In particular, the invention provides for UAV-based variable rate applicator system developed using Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) map-based variable rate technology."

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